Who Has The Floor

Can't Say For Certain Whether Or Not Oliver Twist Would Have Wanted More Of This
First, a follow-up to my immediately preceding blog (May 21, the "Count On It" section) - something I posted earlier today on YouTube, "Notes From The".

More specifically, this regards the homework I gave myself in case I should get invited to Paul McCartney's 68th birthday party June 18 and he wants to talk with me about Charles Dickens and/or the time we were together in the Baker Street Underground Station in May 1983.

Take Camera One
In my blog that immediately preceded my immediately preceding blog (May 18, to put it simply), I included a side-by-side image comparison that demonstrated how a preview commercial regarding the then-upcoming "Simpsons" season finale (aired tonight) contained something I originated in my "Frozen" video posted at archive.org in March 2007. This same video of mine, which has Paul McCartney depicted as sitting on the arm of a sofa while the other three fit on the sofa itself, was behind what McCartney did for his "Memory Almost Full" album cover, as I describe in a pdf I posted a while back at archive.org, "McCartney and Steinhoff, An Introduction". This is from that pdf:

This is one of many instances where I can clearly demonstrate to the astute among us the significant influence I have on Paul McCartney. And it being that this year's season finale of "The Simpsons" was referring to my "Frozen" video, I therefore looked to see if the episode might also include other things regarding my video. I believe the part in tonight's episode where Moe could not find a chair answers that question:

As I've mentioned in previous blogs, "The Simpsons" is among a number of significant things on the entertainment industry landscape that refer to me/my material. One of the main directors of "The Simpsons", Mark Kirkland, used to live down the hall from me at CalArts during the '70s, and though we did not particularly know each other, we did know many people in common. There is a bit in the sequence that opens every "Simpsons" episode that includes an inside-reference regarding me.


We Now Turn To Page One Million In Prayer Book Four Thousand
My next "point", primarily contained in the following videoclip regarding my (perhaps very minor) influence on the May 21 season finale of "Medium", is made clearer if you go back to something I posted in my May 16th blog, in the "Smallville, Mediumville, Steinhoffville" section. [Note- I originally posted it on YouTube, however, they removed it, so I went back to the link in the May 16th blog and added the video in the blog itself.]



Even then your homework would not be done, for you would also want to look further, read previous blog postings, to verify that there exists a cumulative context to support the point.

I recently read that they are considering ending (aka cancelling) this show, which would make this the last episode. I very much hope not, from my own selfish point of view, as I find this to be quite a good show. We've already got "24" ending tomorrow night, and the next season of "Smallville" being its last. Very unfair to me. Nevertheless, I shall just be philosophical about it. Just as I recognize that death permeates life, through the question mark presented by the idea of death, if for no other reason, so the inevitability of the end of these shows has never been out of the equation from day one. Perhaps after "Medium" Patricia Arquette will be moving on to an even "better fit". And if they do actually end it with the May 21 episode, I will also look forward to seeing the other cast members growing into something new.